I am just starting to use SublimeText myself and very quickly became annoyed with the lack of this feature. I have thrown together a quick plugin the mimics it as best I can by using region highlights. You can grab it here:

Using the normal cursor in vintage mode can get very confusing. Specially since in cmd mode it's a underscore and when next to a bracket you get double underscores and you have no clue which is the cursor.

If you add both of the following to "Settings - User", you can get it be be blinky and wide at the same time:

"caret_style": "phase"
"wide_caret": true

Check the "Settings - Default" and search for "caret_style" for more options on the rate and style of blinking. The only other thing I've thought to do is alter the caret color in your preferred color scheme. I have mine set to some horrendously bright color so that it always galares out of the monitor.

I've set the thing as wide as I can, but like a few others above, I could really go for a block cursor. I'm not a programmer; I use Sublime Text (and Komodo Edit, which is uglier but very easy to configure for a non-programmer) to write and prep copy for online publication, and after a long day, that skinny little supermodel cursor is just too damned hard to find.

Excellent, thank you! I don't use vintage mode, so I've modified it a bit to work everywhere, which was very easy to do.

Thanks a million. This makes the cursor so much easier to see!

I wish it blinked, but that's kind of ridiculous functionality to ask for in a plug-in. Hopefully a block cursor style will be added to the official release in the future.

I don't know much about python. Can you share the modified code for using it everywhere to me? thx

Remove lines 22,23,24[code] if view.settings().get('is_widget') or not view.settings().get('command_mode'): view.erase_regions('SublimeBlockCursorListener') return[/code]So that It only does [code]self.show_block_cursor(view)[/code]In the file:github.com/netpro2k/SublimeBloc ... kCursor.py

thx. but it's so not the same as what i mean for block cursor...sad....